People v. Gascoigne

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward McLaughlin, J.), rendered January 2, 1991, convicting defendant of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of imprisonment of five to fifteen years, unanimously affirmed.

Showup identifications in general, and precinct house show-ups in particular, are disfavored (People v Riley, 70 NY2d 523, 529). The initial, spontaneous identification was not, however, police arranged, and since it preceded the showup, could not have been tainted by any improper…